Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-24
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Some Interesting Fax is Which SciruSe
Does Not Satisfaa torily Explain.

Some Interesting E0s is winch Scleh(o
Does Not Satisfs. torily Explain.
There are some curious and interesting
IA Is in regard to the geographical distii-
b,-tiou of cancer which science as yet does
u 1t satisfactorily explain. The last CEN
SIS of the United States demonstrates that
his disease is especially prevalent in the
New England states and on the southern
Pacific coast, that it is prevalent in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and in the in
terror of Michigan and the southern part
Of Wisconsin, and thai it is least preva-
lent upon the Mississippi and in the south,
aud that the proportions are generally
lover in the coast regions than in the in
terror.
An examination Of the reports If death
from cancer in England and Wales made
by DR.. Iiavilland leads him to conclusions
quite in accord with those derived from
our own census. Both banks of the
Tweed near Berwick, and Of the Tyne at
Newcastle, some parts Of Yorkshire and
the whole of the beautiful Lake District
are fertile beds Of cancer The Isle Of
Wight is aN but free from this disease,
while It is common IN Brighton, Folke-
stone, Dover, Ramsgate and Marga;e.
Statistics also demonstrate, as other facts
have seemed to prove, that density OF
population, poor living and laborious toll
have little 10 do with the development
and appearance of cancer.
Thus in London, in which as q whole
cancer IS very prevalent, the parish Of st.
Luke, the neighborhood of Bishopsgate
street, crowded Bethnal green, the Isle Of
Dog, Rothershthe and Bermondsey arc
almost exempt from this disease, but in
the respectable parts Of the metropolis,
about the Marylebone road, Regents park
and Primrose hill it is exceptionally fire.
quent In Liverpool, which has large
mortality from other causes of death, as
shown by the fact that, with population
of 90, 900 in 1878. the number of deaths
exceeded those of the total number Of the
births by 1000, the percentage of deaths
from cancer was exceptionally small. In
the future it may tie discovered that the
localities where the prevalence of this
disease is most frequent have certain
characteristics in common which science
may overcome. and thus notably dimin-
ish this tendency in such localities.
In the report on the vital statistics OF
the United States of the tenth census in
1880, it is remarked that the peculiarities
of the differences i'll mortality from can
Ger in different localities may be in part
explained by differences in the population
OF these localities as regards race and age.
1t is a disease which is much less fire.
quCnt in the colOred than in the white
race, hence the mortality from it is greater
in the north than in the south. 1t causes
the greatest proportion of deaths where
there are he greatest proportion of people
of advanced age, that is TO Say, in the
New England states. Hence in any given
locality. large proportion Of deaths from
cancer indicates TO a Ger; lin extent that
the locality is n neaIthIuI and long
settled one and has large proportion Of
inhab tants of an advanced ase.-New
York Tribune